How To Share Internet Connection Or LAN Connection Between A Laptop And Desktop In Windows XP ?

Vaibhav had a strange problem and Gurdeep Antil came to rescue with a solution. Here’s Vaibhav’s problem:

He has two laptops, one of which supports wireless LAN / internet connection and the other doesn’t. The laptop with wireless LAN enabled had a damaged screen, as a result nothing could be seen on the screen. There were two options, either Vaibhav had to take his system to the room where the router was installed and plug a LAN wire to the laptop and work (this would take away his freedom of working from his room) or the other option was to set up a connection between two laptops: one with Wireless LAN and another without wireless LAN (the second system can be a desktop also), hence the system without wireless LAN card can access the internet via other system.

Gurdeep went ahead with the second solution. Here’s how you can set up Internet Connection or LAN connection between A Laptop and Desktop:

1> Make sure the internet connection is working fine on the laptop with wireless LAN setup. Next you need to install NetBEUI on windows XP ( The laptop with wireless card). NetBEUI is not installed on your system by default. The NetBEUI files should be copied manually from Windows XP CD on to your system.